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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Overheard at the DSCC retreat on Martha's Vineyard — SEN. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) hosted a dinner Friday night for more than 100 guests at his house on Martha's Vineyard as part of the DSCC'S annual Majority Trust retreat. OVERHEARD: Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee …
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Hullabaloo, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Condemned Trump in Reno. He Answered in Las Vegas With a Slur. — HENDERSON, Nev. — The clash began Saturday morning with a populist denunciation of President Trump's policies, delivered in Reno, Nev., by a Democratic senator who is one of his most ferocious critics.
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Politico
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Appeals to Republicans in Las Vegas, Leaving Behind Washington's Legislative Chaos
Trump Appeals to Republicans in Las Vegas, Leaving Behind Washington's Legislative Chaos
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Chicago Tribune and Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Let the Trump team eat in peace — OVER THE WEEKEND there was a fair bit of argument over the decision by a small restaurant in Lexington, Va., not to serve dinner to President Trump's press secretary. It wasn't the first time recently that strong political feelings have spilled into what used to be considered the private sphere.
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Mashable, Mediaite, IJR, KTLA, The Gateway Pundit, CBS Philly, The Guardian, Conservative News Today and Washington Times
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Washington Post:
Trump advocates depriving undocumented immigrants of due-process rights — President Trump on Sunday explicitly advocated depriving undocumented immigrants of their due-process rights, arguing that people who cross the border into the United States illegally must immediately be deported without trial …
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The Week
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Calls for Depriving Immigrants Who Illegally Cross Border of Due Process Rights
Trump Calls for Depriving Immigrants Who Illegally Cross Border of Due Process Rights
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Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, HuffPost and Althouse
CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker: Arizona, Florida, Texas - immigration and key Senate races — The latest CBS News Battleground Tracker dives into how the issue of immigration and the separation of families at the border is playing in the key states of Arizona, Texas and Florida.
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twitchy.com, Florida Politics and Political Wire
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CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker: Sharp divides over immigration, separation — The issue of family separation reveals deep divisions over not just immigration as an issue, but over views of immigrants, themselves - and over what their treatment signals about America.
Mike Godwin / Los Angeles Times:
Do we need to update Godwin's Law about the probability of comparison to Nazis? — Does Godwin's Law need to be updated? Suspended? Repealed? I get asked this question from time to time because I'm the guy who came up with it more than a quarter century ago.
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Hullabaloo
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Allan Richarz / The Hill:
The strategic blunder of ‘Trump-as-Hitler’ — You knew it was coming. Eighteen months into the Trump administration and the president's ostensibly serious critics have finally broken the glass on the “Trump-is-a-Nazi” line of attack. — To be certain, there were previous allusions to this from media …
Ilan Ben Zion / Associated Press:
Kushner rips Abbas, says Mideast peace plan due ‘soon’ — JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser said in an interview published Sunday that the administration will soon present its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, with or without input from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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The Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Breitbart and Reuters
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Mitt Romney / Salt Lake Tribune:
Where I stand on the Trump agenda — I appreciate the argument made by those who believe we should stay silent, but I cannot subscribe to it. — One of the questions I am asked frequently on the campaign trail is whether as Senator I will support the Trump agenda.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Axios:
What we're watching: How Trump's Democrat-blaming plays with the GOP — As pressure builds for Congress to pass legislation that would keep migrant families together at the border, President Trump continues to tweet, blaming Democrats for lawmakers' failure to act and forcing fellow Republicans to contend with his statements.
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CNN, The Daily Beast, ABC News, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Breitbart
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Flake threatens Trump again on judicial nominees
Flake threatens Trump again on judicial nominees
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Political Wire, HuffPost, Daily Caller News Foundation and Talking Points Memo
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Mixed Signals in the Battle for Congress
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump Leaves His Mark on a Presidential Keepsake — Under President Trump, once stately medallions have gotten glitzier, and at least one featured a Trump property. Ethics watchdogs are worried. — WASHINGTON — Since Bill Clinton occupied the White House, the commemorative medallions known …
New York Times:
New Emails Suggest Scott Pruitt Discussed Hiring a Friend of Lobbyist Landlord — Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, discussed hiring a friend of a lobbyist family that owned a condominium he was renting for $50 a night, newly released emails suggest.
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CNN and Political Wire
Business Insider:
America's closest allies are furious about Trump's tariffs, and now an unorthodox idea to go after him is gaining steam — President Donald Trump's headlong push toward a trade war is prompting unprecedented responses from countries around the world and blowback from top US allies.
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Patterico's Pontifications
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
This Was the Week That Finally Broke Trump's Spell … Donald Trump can't define or pronounce the word Manichaean, but he knows it when he sees it. For Trump, there are two types of people; Donald Trump, and losers, and the one thing Donald Trump can't abide is a loser.
Molly McKew / Los Angeles Times:
The whole world sees it: Trump is doing lasting damage to the global order that made the U.S. a superpower — A little more than a week ago, as President Trump completed his world mini-tour, my Ukrainian researcher emailed me. She witnessed some of the violence of Ukraine's latest revolution …
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
Poop. Needles. Rats. Homeless camp pushes SF neighborhood to the edge — One awful experience on one unremarkable city block represent the hellscape that has infuriated many San Francisco residents — The Chronicle receives a deluge of email every day, but one message sent …
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American Greatness
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
This Obama-era pilot program kept asylum-seeking migrant families together. Trump canceled it. — ICE said the Family Case Management Program, which cost the government $36 a day, was too expensive compared to other monitoring methods. — In the wake of the 2014 migrant crisis that saw …
Paul Demko / Politico:
Reversal of fortune: Obamacare rate hikes pose headache for Republicans — Unlike recent campaign cycles, when Republicans capitalized on Obamacare sticker shock, they're now likely to be the ones feeling the wrath of voters. — Obamacare premiums are once again poised to spike by double digits in 2019 …
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Axios
Thomas Lifson / American Thinker:
Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities — The Mueller special counsel investigation purportedly was instigated to discover possible illicit Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election but now is backing away from the only indictments aimed at Russian entities …
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Power Line